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The Don’t Let Nickel Back Campaign

When I first scanned the headline in my feed reader, I thought the Fact Magazine article was a misprint. Then again, I hear many complain about Nickelback, on a podcast I recently heard them dubbed “the worst successful band ever”. Personally, I think they are okay. However, Craig Mandell does not want these Canadians to play in London.

1 dollar and he sends an email to their management on your behalf – 12 are claimed

5 dollars and he sends a slightly stronger email – 7 claimed

10 dollars for a “slightly explicit” email – 3 claimed

50 dollars for an email with a mp3 of their music attached so that “the band will hear their own music, and likely retire immediately” – 0 claimed

The campaign has 27 days to reach its 1000 dollar goal and has raised 87 dollars from 18 backers. While I like the creativity and some of the cute lines in the tiers, I have to wonder why not simply boycott the band and not spend any money?

2014.09.27 – Tech Net News and Opinion

Greetings Listeners, Welcome to this episode of Tech Net News and Opinion. This is the full show edition and usually runs about 2 hours in length. We also publish topic related editions. Typical topics are tech, Google, net, science, and government news. When it is close to or during the season of The Walking Dead, we also discuss and review the AMC Show. In this show we discuss:

Some generalsite news

The new theme

The new editor

Lumpy is almost done with Gen Con

We opened the show with Sarah Donner and her two songs:

Going Under

Follow Suit

The tracks you heard were recorded live at this years Gen Con. We would like to again thank her for both her time and her permission. Be sure and check out the interview lumpy got with Sarah at the Starbucks across from the Indianapolis Convention Center.

Indie Nation Other News

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Mathew Rivaldi of Wiggity Bang Games

Mathew Rivaldi is the president of Wiggity Bang Games and he was nice enough to sit down with me and talk about his company and it’s most recent release, Alpha Bandits. The company was also giving out print and play versions of the game.

The company has a history of award-winning games and I feel that Alpha Bandits may well make that list. While I am still too far behind on interviews to have played it yet. I can tell you from watching others play it at the Con, it is a really entertaining board game. Listen in as we talk about:

Gateway Games to Introduce Your Non-Gaming Friends to Gaming – Calliope Games

Calliope Games

I was lucky enough to catch the president of Calliope Games at the 2014 Gen Con. Calliope Games are “gateway” games. A game is to introduce non-gamers to gaming as a hobby. This means they are low-cost with all titles under 30 USD and have short play times with most games being played in under 30 minutes. They also appeal to a wide age group.

Talking Gen Con 2014 on Tech Net News and Opinion

Gen Con 2014

If you have never been to a Gen Con, Lumpy will spend almost one-quarter of the show playing some of the artists who performed there and talking about his experience. Lumpy had never attended a Gen Con before. There are a few things he knows for sure:

An Interesting Take on Trash

I got wind of this via Cory Doctorow over at Boing! Boing! I would encourage you to simply check out the 6 minute video because the creator of this project not only explains it well but you can see, hear and feel his passion. He also shares many of the “inventions” he is already using for his Kickstarter Project, A Trash Secret.

TGGN 4-23-2013

Today’s show features the music of The Griswolds. We opened with Mississippi and Heart of a Lion. We liked their down under sound so much we decided to also end the show with Red Tuxedo. Links for the band are at the end of the show notes.

Remember the days of youth when you wished you could fly a Veritech fighter? I do. Thanks to Ninja Division we have a Robotech Kickstarter. It only took them about six hours to meet the goal of 70,000

Through Gamer Goggles News 2013.04.16

We opened the show with My Atari by Sudden Death. (The artist is now known as Devo Spice.) Since we were going to be covering some Magic we also played Magic Man by Heart

Magic the Gathering

World-famous StarCraft player and e-sports commentator Sean Plott – better known online as Day[9] – is taking a break from shoutcasting for a weekend and will take part in the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour – Dragon’s Maze taking place May 17-19!

On this episode of Through Gamer Goggles News we enjoyed the company of the creators of Zpocalypse from GreenBrier Games. We had a wonderful time discussing their semi-cooperative board game and its future. Lend us your ear for a while and here what Zpocalypse is all about.

It has happened, the zombie apocalpse has arrived… in the form of a board game. About three weeks ago we introduce the Indienation listeners to the Creators of Zpocalypse. We have finally managed to film our Box Breaking on this great game.

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